Russian Winter - A piano recital by Alexander Malikov
Event Information
About this Event
Join us for a celebration of the greatest masterworks of Russian piano music, performed by one of Canada's top pianists, Alexander Malikov!
The centrepiece of this recital is the magnificent PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION.
This virtual concert is presented on a Steinway D piano in Grace Church on the Hill in Toronto, ON. The professional media team are Stelth Ng and Matt Antal.
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You can also check back for the concert link on the Event page, 5 minutes before the concert.
PROGRAM
-A. Scriabin - Sonata no. 2 for piano
-Modest Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition
Dr. Alexander Malikov performs extensively around Canada and the United States. He has been featured as Artist-in-residence on Performance Today with the Minnesota Public Radio, and has worked with conductors such as Michael Tilson Thomas, Boris Brott, Gaddiel Dombrowner and Michelle Merrill. As a recitalist, he has appeared at the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheater in Toronto, the Banff International String Quartet Festival, as “Montague Artist” at the Heidelberg University in Ohio, at the “Rising Star” series at the Texas State International Piano Festival, and many others. He is also an advocate of new music and recently premiered a piano concerto by composer Minho Yoon. A composer himself, Alexander gave the world premier of his own piano concerto in 2016.
He is a prize winner of the Knigge, Shean, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Petroff, and Carl E. Baldassare Composer-Performer competitions. He is a gold medalist at the Manhattan International Competition. Most recently, he received second prize at the 2020 Walled City Music International Online Piano Competition.
A graduate of Oberlin College with Angela Cheng and the Juilliard School with Julian Martin, Alexander went on to receive an Artist Diploma under Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music and a Doctorate of Musical Arts with Anton Nel at the University of Texas. He is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma with James Anagnoson and John Perry at the Glenn Gould School in Toronto.
